Protecting Email links

[Mark K]

I am creating a page for my companies website with contact
information for the people in this office. Is there a way
to keep the email links from being crawled by the spam
spyders? I herd you can put some code just b4 the email
link to stop the spiders from crawling it. If nt would
putting the addresses into a spreadsheet on the page keep
them from being crawled?

Had a very bad experiennce with our last website. Emails
were plainly posted and within a couple of months we were
receiving approx. 150 spams a day per address.

Thanks Mark

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The best approach is to use a form with a server-side script (such as ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, etc.) that
would look up the email address in a database for the individual and then send the email without the
site visitor ever seeing the email address, unless the individual actually replies to the message.

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[Mark K]

Thanks but that is WAY beyond my skills as a "webmaster".
Anything easier???

-----Original Message-----
The best approach is to use a form with a server-side

script (such as ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, etc.) that

would look up the email address in a database for the

individual and then send the email without the

site visitor ever seeing the email address, unless the

individual actually replies to the message.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

No email links on the site. <smile>

There is a JavaScript method of hiding the email address, but if you ever need to do a search and
replace, you are out of luck.

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[Mark K]

Java I can handle. I will do a web search and see if I can
find it.

THX

-----Original Message-----
No email links on the site. <smile>

There is a JavaScript method of hiding the email address,

but if you ever need to do a search and

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Not Java, *JavaScript*. Two different animals.

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| Java I can handle. I will do a web search and see if I can
| find it.
|
| THX
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >No email links on the site. <smile>
| >
| >There is a JavaScript method of hiding the email address,
| but if you ever need to do a search and
| >replace, you are out of luck.
| >
| >--
| >==============================================
| >Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| >WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
| >
| >FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| >==============================================
| >To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage
| support see:
| >http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| >
| message
| >| >> Thanks but that is WAY beyond my skills as
| a "webmaster".
| >> Anything easier???
| >>
| >>
| >>>-----Original Message-----
| >>>The best approach is to use a form with a server-side
| >> script (such as ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, etc.) that
| >>>would look up the email address in a database for the
| >> individual and then send the email without the
| >>>site visitor ever seeing the email address, unless the
| >> individual actually replies to the message.
| >>>
| >>>--
| >>>==============================================
| >>>Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| >>>WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
| >>>
| >>>FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| >>>==============================================
| >>>To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage
| >> support see:
| >>>http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| >>>
| >> message
| >>>| >>>>I am creating a page for my companies website with
| >> contact
| >>>> information for the people in this office. Is there a
| >> way
| >>>> to keep the email links from being crawled by the spam
| >>>> spyders? I herd you can put some code just b4 the
| email
| >>>> link to stop the spiders from crawling it. If nt would
| >>>> putting the addresses into a spreadsheet on the page
| >> keep
| >>>> them from being crawled?
| >>>>
| >>>> Had a very bad experiennce with our last website.
| Emails
| >>>> were plainly posted and within a couple of months we
| >> were
| >>>> receiving approx. 150 spams a day per address.
| >>>>
| >>>> Thanks Mark
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>.
| >>>
| >
| >
| >.
| >

 

[Tina Clarke]

I am creating a page for my companies website with contact
information for the people in this office. Is there a way
to keep the email links from being crawled by the spam
spyders? I herd you can put some code just b4 the email
link to stop the spiders from crawling it. If nt would
putting the addresses into a spreadsheet on the page keep
them from being crawled?

Had a very bad experiennce with our last website. Emails
were plainly posted and within a couple of months we were
receiving approx. 150 spams a day per address.

Thanks Mark

This might help ... http://accessfp.net/protect-your-email-address.htm You
can also reverse your addy in the code by using css.

Plus there is a FrontPage addon called FormArtist they have a Free version
of it.
http://www.quask.com/en/product_free.asp

Let me know if this helps.

Tina
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They are primarily for FrontPage 2003 but will be good
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